Rise to Rebellion and The Glorious Cause by Jeff Shaara. Amazing historian and damned good writer. All his books on all our wars are good. This is an excellent place to start since these are historical novels, deeply researched and engagingly written.
Federalist papers. Poor Richard's Almanac, for some good wisdom.
George Washington's War by Robert Leckie. Also a good historian.
I would add Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith and everything Locke wrote to your list, along with De Tocqueville's Democracy in America, as our founders read and studied them when building our government. Plato's Republic.
Rise to Rebellion and The Glorious Cause by Jeff Shaara. Amazing historian and damned good writer. All his books on all our wars are good. This is an excellent place to start since these are historical novels, deeply researched and engagingly written.
Federalist papers. Poor Richard's Almanac, for some good wisdom.
George Washington's War by Robert Leckie. Also a good historian.
I would add Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith and everything Locke wrote to your list, along with De Tocqueville's Democracy in America, as our founders read and studied them when building our government. Plato's Republic.
You should be able to find lists of the books the founders owned. Read what they read. Here is one from Jefferson : http://tjlibraries.monticello.org/about/lists.html
That has links to a digital listing of Jefferson's books.
Vattel's Law of Nations was an important resource for our founders.
I would throw in John Locke.
I did actually, right after Adam Smith :-).